Lost Treasures of Egypt

This National Geographic show presents archaeologists as they excavate dig sites and make big discoveries. They present the latest understanding of these past Egyptian civilizations. What I love most is finding new discoveries. It's great finding a new opening and going down a new tunnel. It's amazing to uncover that cartouche still with its original paint. It's great to see that discoveries continue. On the other hand, I can do without the lady in 20's outfit. Someone is too in love with Merchant and Ivory movies. It's too much of a gimmick. The show does threaten to overload the information. Overall, it's nice to see these places and things. It's even better to know that more are being discovered.

This is a good series. Among other things, it stands out from the pack by not being stuffed with endless repetitive filler of the same graphics over and over. As noted by others, the inclusion of a pair of college professors who dress like 19th century tourists (and who are in fact only scholarly tourists themselves) is more than a little annoying. It's like visitors to Kenya dressing up in their little safari suits before they pile into their parade of Toyota vans.

As for episode two, if you ever get a job in Egyptian archeology, don't work for Dr. Mohie. Way too much of an obnoxious jerk. After the aged-out-into-retirement Dr. Hawas, it feels like Mohie is feeling the wind in his sails.

But those are the only two issues. The content is very good and there are even a couple of revelations. Considering how Egypt has been done to death in documentaries, it is nice to have a series that provides something new.

I am watching this "lost treasures of Egypt" on Hulu and I dunno who she ... Colleen Darnell...is but her outfit is ridiculously ugly and the fact they just had to mention that she is a "vintage clothes collector" on a documentary of ancient Egypt...lost treasures... well that's just stupid and disrespectful. Maybe more disrespectful than disturbing our ancestors graves!? I'm not going lie, I love ancient aliens, lost cities, outer space, and things that I'm very curious about, but at the end of the day, I watch these shows that kinda contradict themselves. They say how it was soooo important for Egyptians and ancient ancestors to be buried and their mummy was to preserve their soul and rest in peace so they could live a happy life in the next world... yet we are digging them up and ripping them apart?! I'm just as curious as anyone but at the end of the day, if it were me, I would let them rest I'm peace. They will haunt you and you know this! Regardless it's rude! I hope they dig up your grave in a few hundred years without your family consent!

While there is some very interesting history presented in this series, the big downside was the incessant moving from one excavation location to another every few minutes. It would have been much better if they just stuck with one story for a longer period. I suppose this style was chosen in a weird attempt to hold the interest of those that have a short attention span, but I found it to be extremely annoying.

Most of the historical experts do a pretty good job of hosting their segments. There is one notable exception, that being Colleen Darnell. Her obsession with 1920s period clothing comes across as unprofessional while she parades along as though she's on a fashion show catwalk. Along with her mousy voice, it just makes her segments cringe-worthy.

All said, I feel the production method really downgraded the effort and left me disappointed with what could have been a much better series from National Geographic.

Nice series, but sometimes a bit unnecessary gross. But where did they find that '20 couple?! It's cringe to the bone! Why would you walk around in Egypt dressed like a '20 explorer? A bit ridiculous.